Category Archives: Book

Happy 1st birthday to my 2nd poetry book!

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My book is 1 year old! Happy birthday to my second poetry book If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun, winner of the Antivenom Poetry Award and published by Elixir Press! My book and I would like to say a huge, quivering THANK YOU to everyone for reading it and for being so awesome about it over these 12 months.

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If you’d like a signed copy, you can order one from my website. (I’ll mail it out with a bright yellow lemon sticker on the front of the package which makes our local postal clerk Vinnie say, “Sold another book, did you? Good job!”

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You can also buy a regular copy just from Bookshop dot org, Small Press Distribution, Amazon, and elsewhere!

I’m interviewed in the new print edition of Rain Taxi!

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Hot dang! I just received the new Rain Taxi which contains the interview with me about my book, If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun (Elixir Press, 2021). I’m doing loop-de-loops! I hope you’ll snag yourself a print copy in your bookstore, library, or by purchase or subscription! Thank you Eric Lorberer at Rain Taxi and thank you Christopher Carter Sanderson for interviewing me!

Order a signed copy of my new poetry book, If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun!

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Another box of my new poetry book has arrived! Want a signed copy of If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun, winner of the Antivenom Poetry Award from Elixir Press? Order one directly from me via my website or this link: https://checkout.square.site/buy/T2GSZQN2ZYSFOIN4FVAYAF5J

Thank you Superstition Review!

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Huge sparkly thank yous to Sara Walker and The Superstition Review for posting about my new poetry book, If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun! They included a the title poem and a video of me reading other two poems from the book.

https://blog.superstitionreview.asu.edu/when-life-gives-you-lemons/

My poem in New Poetry from the Midwest Anthology!

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I’m so happy to receive my contributor copy of the newest New Poetry from the Midwest anthology, which contains my poem “If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun,” the title poem for my second book of poetry which came out this April from Elixir Press. How grand to share this beautiful space with so many poets and friends I admire. Thank you to series editors Rita Mae Reese and Hannah Stephenson!

My writing exercises appear in The Open Page: Poetry, Fiction and Essays on the Art of Writing from the faculty of the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing

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I’m thrilled to have received my contributor copy of The Open Page, the new anthology of creative writing exercises and poems, fictions, and essays from the faculty of The Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. I have a poetry exercise (and some poems) and a lyric essay exercise (and a whole lyric essay) in it. Plus there’s TONS of awesome stuff by so many of my fellow MVICW faulty! Get yourself a copy and write write write!

Get yerself a copy HERE!

The awesome list of contributors include: Tony Ardizzone, Ruth Awad, Bradley Bazzle, Christopher Citro 😀, Tia Clark, Rebecca Gayle Howell, Matthew Gavin Frank, John T Howard, Michael Kardos, Keith Leonard, Amelia Martens, Michael Martone, Amy Meng, Sequoia Nagamatsu, Phong Nguyen, Randi Beck Ocena, Catherine Pierce, Wendy Rawlings, Robert James Russell, Elizabeth Schmuhl, Britton Shurley, Keith Taylor, Samantha Tetangco, Samrat Upadhyay, Alexander Weinstein, and Kea Wilson!

Sendin’ out another batch of signed copies on my book’s 3 month birthday!

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My new poetry book is three months old today! I celebrated by mailing out another batch of signed books. Huge thanks to everyone who’s ordered one! 😀 If YOU want a signed copy of IF WE HAD A LEMON WE’D THROW IT AND CALL THAT THE SUN, visit the books page of my website or this LINK. 🍋🌞

My new book is one month old!

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My book, If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun, winner of Elixir Press’ Antivenom Poetry Award, is one month old! 🍋🌞 I just posted another batch of signed copies. If you’d like one of your own, you can order a signed copy HERE. Thank you to everyone who has ordered a signed copy, or bought one from Amazon, Small Press Distribution, Bookshop.org! Huge thanks to everyone who has rated and reviewed it on Goodreads and Amazon! My book and I are purring with gratitude. ❤❤❤



Thank you New Pages!

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Thank you New Pages for featuring my new poetry book, If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun, on today’s installment of their Books Stand’s New & Noteworthy! My book, which won Elixir Press’ Antivenom Poetry Award, is three weeks old today! 😀 Go HERE if you want to buy a signed copy. Copies are also available at Small Press Distribution, Amazon, and at Bookshop.org. 🍋🌞